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In the 1430s, the Taureg tribes took control of the city as the Mali Empire's power was diminishing. Then in 1462, Songhai ruler Sonni Ali Ber captured Timbuktu after defeating the Tuareg forces there. Ali Ber developed the city into a major trading city afterwards.

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